South African Music Archive Project
East African
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- Composer: Akito Arap Yeko (Performer) | 1950/09/09 | East African, Kapsabet Nandi district Kenya, Nandi, Praise song, Yeko, Akito Arap, ILAM | Praise song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre (5 or 6 string pentatonic lyre used by Nandi tribe in Kenya, also known as Kibugantet and Chepkong.) This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe zither of Nyasaland. This gave 2 chords. Notes 1, 3 and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of number 1. The scale was: 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs., The tune comes from the Luo people in the valleys below but has had Nandi words put to it. It is a song of praise for the Nandi country and other places which the singer and his audience have visited., The full recording is not available here.
- Composer: Soldiers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | East African, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Sena, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Wedding song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1209
- Composer: Batalhao Indigena de Cacadores (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Batalhao Indigena, Batalhao Indigena de Cacadores, East African, Indigenous music, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Rattle, Sena, Tete, Wedding song, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3581.
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: M. Kija (Performer) | 1950/07/23 | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, M. bin Kija, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Williamson Diamond Mine, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. D4H3.
- Composer: Mwikuru Kija (Performer) | 1950/07/23 | Dance music, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Maswa, Mwikuru Kija, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Folk music - Wigasha dance song for men and women with Sukuma men.Further details refer ILAM field card (D4H3)
- Artist(s): Murikuru Kija (Performer)Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Murikuru Kija (Performer)Sukuma men (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | dance, East African, men and women, Murikuru Kija, Nyamwezi, Song, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, traditional, Unaccompanied, Wigasha, ILAM | Unaccompanied Wigasha dance song for men and women. ILAM field card number is unknown
- Artist(s): Sukuma men | Composer: Mwikuru Kija (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952-00-00 | Dance song, East African, Indigenous music, Mwikuru Kija, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Wigasha, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number CR1462
- Composer: John Khoza's Female Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1930-00-00 | Choral music, East African, Indigenous music, John Khoza, John Khoza's Female Choir, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Shangaan, Shangaan harp, Southern African, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recording) number: CR0490
- Composer: Mika Tyab (Performer)Composer not specified | 1930-00-00 | Bangwe zither, East African, Indigenous music, Malawi, Mika Tyab, Nyanja, Nyasaland, Southern African, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR0995
- Composer: The Chipika singers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1944-00-00 | Chikaranga, Chipika Singers, East African, Indigenous music, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3741.
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